Stephen Quay
Directing · Director · Cinematography · Writer
Born Jun 17, 1947 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Active 1979–present · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship
Stephen Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art and later continued his education at the Royal College of Art in London, where he met his twin brother Timothy and…
Filmography
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2025) — Animation · Screenplay · Director · Sound · EditorInstitute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) — Director · WriterStreet of Crocodiles (1986) — Director · Editor · Animation · Writer · Production DesignThe Falls (1982) — Ipson FallariThe Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984) — Director · Director of PhotographyThe Comb (1991) — Director · Writer · Animation · Editor · Camera Operator · Art DirectionStille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988) — DirectorThe Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) — Director · Writer · Production DesignIn Absentia (2000) — Director · AnimationRehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988) — Director · Cinematography · Animation · DecoratorAnamorphosis (1993) — Director · Art Direction · Editor · Animation · Camera Operator · DecoratorStille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1993) — Director · Camera Operator · AnimationStille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992) — Director · Animation · Camera OperatorThis Unnameable Little Broom (1985) — Director · Writer · Director of PhotographyPhantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers (2007) — DirectorA Fratricide (1981) — Director · AnimationMaska (2010) — Director · WriterNocturna Artificialia (1979) — Director · CinematographyStille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993) — Director · Animation · Camera OperatorTales of the Brothers Quay (1987) — DirectorThe Calligrapher (1991) — Director · AnimationThe Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (2003) — Librarian · DirectorThrough the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011) — Director · Sound · Animation · EditorUnmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013) — Writer · Animation · Director